AEO Sprint Specialist for Agencies & Consultancies

From invisible to recommended in AI search

When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini who to hire, the shortlist it returns is the pitch list - before any website visit, before any call. I run structured sprints that get you on it.

0% → 30%
AI search visibility in one sprint
2,357
Citations generated in a single week
8 of 8
Major LLMs referencing the client
Tracked & cited across
ChatGPT Perplexity Claude Gemini Copilot Grok Meta AI DeepSeek
The problem

Most agencies have zero presence in AI search - and don't know it yet

Buyers stopped scrolling ten blue links. They ask an AI model to shortlist agencies, read the three or four names it returns, and start there. If your firm isn't one of them, you're not losing the pitch - you never got the meeting.

Publishing more blog posts rarely fixes this. Most sites have no visibility because there's nothing consistent for a model to work with: no repeated authority claims, no content structured for AI extraction, nothing to cite with confidence.

AI Search - Live Response
"Which agency should we shortlist for AI search visibility?"
  1. Agency A Cited 14x - structured authority content, referenced across 6 models.
  2. Agency B Cited 9x - strong on measurement and attribution prompts.
  3. Your agency - no consistent citation signal found.
The approach

The Authority Framework

Before I publish a single article, I define what you stand for - the claims that need to show up, consistently, across every AI answer. Content is the vehicle. Positioning is the work.

01

Define the pillars

The handful of claims every AI answer needs to repeat back about you.

02

Structure for extraction

Built for how a model reads a page, not how a search engine ranks one.

03

Publish at volume

Steady output so gains stack up instead of fading between articles.

04

Track & redirect

Weekly checks across 8 LLMs, feeding straight into next month's targets.

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The proof · Case study

From zero to visible, in eight weeks

A specialist UK digital marketing agency went from no presence in ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude to cited by all eight major LLMs, in one eight-week on-site sprint.

Visibility growth
0% → 30%
On agency discovery prompts, from zero at sprint start.
Weekly citations
2,357
Generated in a single week, across all 8 major LLMs - from just 6 articles.
LLM coverage
8 of 8
Major LLMs referencing the agency, including ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude.
"
During the sprint, a global consumer brand found us through Google/Gemini and came in as an inbound enquiry - before any outreach, before any paid activity. Eight weeks earlier, we had zero presence in AI search.
Chief Marketing Officer · UK Digital Marketing Agency

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How I work

Two ways to build AI visibility

Every engagement starts with the same question: what does the data say your firm needs? From there, I scope one of two shapes. Either way, you work with me directly - no account managers, no handoffs to a junior team.

Foundation

The Sprint

For firms with little or no AI search presence who need proof, fast.

  • Six articles, one a week, built for how AI models read a page
  • A baseline taken before anything is published, then weekly tracking across eight LLMs
  • A final data review in Week 8 and a re-check in Week 12
Scope a sprint See what's included, week by week →
What happens, and when

Eight weeks from kick-off to final review

Week 0

Baseline and setup

I run your buyer prompts across eight LLMs to record where you stand and check that AI crawlers can read your site. We agree how articles get published: direct CMS access, or a publish-by date for each article. I also ask whether you already work with a PR agency, because it decides your Retainer path later.

Week 1

Strategy & discovery

A discovery session on what your firm does, who it is for and what you want to be known for. We leave with your prompts prioritised and three or four authority pillars drafted.

Week 2

Strategy confirmation

I confirm the target phrases and propose article titles. You have three business days to approve, and no response counts as approval. A requested change moves the start date back and leaves the writing schedule alone.

Weeks 3–8

Production

I publish six articles, one a week, each built for LLM citation. At Week 6 I compare the numbers with your baseline and aim the last two articles at what has moved.

End of Week 8

Final review

We review the data together, with named, recommended and cited reported as three separate numbers. My recommendation on the Retainer comes from that data.

Week 12

Re-check

Four weeks after the last article, I run the same prompts again to show how much of the result holds without new work.

The library

Latest from the library

Citation Tracking

Why ChatGPT cites different pages every time you ask

In a University of Toronto replay, ChatGPT's cited pages overlapped by only 15% between two runs of the same question on the same day. One answer tells you little about your visibility. A share of answers over several weeks tells you more.

Read the article
ChatGPT

What to do when ChatGPT describes your firm wrongly

Flagging the answer is worth doing, but it won't fix the next one. What works is finding where the error came from and putting clear, specific facts where AI tools look.

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Crawler Access

Does llms.txt work? What the evidence says

For getting cited in ChatGPT or Google's AI answers, no. Google's own guidance and two large studies point the same way.

Read the article

Read more in the full library →

Questions

Before you book a call

AEO is the discipline of getting your firm cited, named and recommended inside AI-generated answers - ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and the rest - rather than just ranked in a list of blue links. It's built on structured content, consistent authority claims, and citation tracking, not keywords.
SEO optimises for ranking algorithms and click-through. AEO optimises for extraction: how a language model reads, trusts and quotes a page when constructing an answer. The two overlap, but the content structure, the metrics, and the definition of "winning" are different.
In my most recent sprint, the client went from 0% to 30% visibility on target prompts in eight weeks. I expect early movement between Week 4 and Week 6, but no study backs that range beyond my own sprint, so the Week 6 checkpoint tests it on your numbers. ChatGPT's citation rate also moves on its own schedule, so I judge progress across several platforms.
I track citations and mentions weekly across the eight major models - ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Meta AI and DeepSeek - and report visibility and citation volume for each, monthly.

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Start here

Start with a 30-minute discovery call

I'll tell you exactly where you stand in AI search today - no deck, no spin, just the data.